How to Experience ‘Woodworking in America’

Brian Boggs offers a detailed explanation of how to choose and cut your wood to make a strong chair.

If you didn’t get to attend our Woodworking in America conference in Berea, Ky., this story is for you.

When we planned the conference, we knew that there would be thousands of people who wouldn’t be able to make the trip to Berea but who would be very interested in the demonstrations, instruction and the Marketplace, which was filled with more hand tools than I have ever seen in one place (except the Lee Valley warehouse).

So we invited many of our favorite bloggers to attend the conference and gave them free reign to cover the event with their cameras and their pencils. We also recorded many hours of videotape ourselves and took more than 500 photos.

While we don’t have plans to ever sell any of this information, we will be editing it and presenting it to you free on our web site during the coming months. If you want to ensure that you hear about our coverage, I recommend you sign up for our free weekly newsletter. We’ll announce every new video and story there first.

Mortising Behind Glass: See inside the tricky mortise joint as you watch as Frank Klausz cut a mortise from behind glass. This clip was filmed by Roy Underhill.article/mortising_under_glass/

Augering Up Close: In this short clip filmed by Roy Underhill, get an up close view as Mike Dunbar augers a mortise.article/augering_up_close/

Sandal Woods: Al Navas has posted multiple videos covering some of his favorite moments as well as full coverage of the sessions he attended. Here you’ll find “Dovetailing: Pins vs. Tails,” “Scrapers: History, Preparation and Use” and many more to come.http://sandal-woodsblog.com/